Welcome to my homepage. I am an assistant professor of English at the College of New Jersey. As a scholar, my historical speciality is 19th-century British literature, especially Romantic and Victorian poetry, but my interest in the social ramifications of poetic form has broadened my scholarly horizons to include a variety of British and American poetry from the 19th and 20th centuries. My main research interest these days is dialect poetry.  I've recently published an article on Victorian working-class dialect (in Victorian Poetry) have written another on the question of dialect in the Harlem Renaissance, and am at work on another on the use of English dialects by contemporary Caribbean poets. Here at the College of New Jersey, I teach courses in Rhetoric, Victorian literature, 19th-century English fiction, Post-Colonial and World Literature, and literary theory. I like to think I am successful here at generating interest in the Victorian age--much maligned as a stuffy, repressed era, but in reality the literary age that has it all--world conquest, heated controversy over women's, minorities' and workers' rights, not to mention literary fascination with all sorts of stimulating stuff, including vampires, crime and madness, drug use, the orient, and the occult. On my teaching page you can see titles of some courses I teach and have taught. If these or any of the topics above interest you, let me know. Perhaps a relevant course may be forthcoming.
 

You can call me in my office at (609) 771-2584.

Or stop by and visit me at 305 Bliss Hall.

Or send me e-mail at lmccaule@tcnj.edu. (Also, see link at bottom of page for your convenience.)
 

Oh yes, and I also have a life beyond campus. My wife Anny Ewing, my two sons Sam and Henry, and I live in a 150-year-old farmhouse in Pennsylvania. We raise chickens and llamas. In my non-existant free time I also enjoy beekeeping, gardening, music from Texas and the Andes, and rooting for my alma mater, the Iowa Hawkeyes. I am originally from Vermont, a state whose population tends to be suspicious of people down here in The Garden State and generally dismayed by the rumored absence of frugality and common sense in the behavior of all flatlanders. I do work hard, however, to keep an open mind about the people around me.

Here are some links which may be of interest to my students, friends, colleagues, and the idly curious:

Teaching: Courses past, present, future.

Resume: The sum total of the man?

Links: The Cyberpath to enlightenment.

The Family Gallery: It speaks for itself.